Weston Drama Workshop, a nonprofit youth theater organization in its 62nd anniversary season, staged six productions this month at Regis College, featuring participants entering Grade 5 through age 23. Participants have been rehearsing for these productions since early June, and performed at the Regis College Fine Arts Center between July 13 and July 27. With over 30 performances in the span of a jam-packed three weeks, Weston Drama Workshop continued its long-standing tradition of providing the MetroWest community and beyond with quality youth theater.

Bernie Klau, Morgan Bienstock, Anya Carroll

WDW’s younger ensemble—participants in the Morning Program and the Afternoon Program—performed two productions: Alice By Heart, the touching musical based on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and set in the rubble of the London Blitz of World War II, directed by Aidan O’Hara; and Old Jake’s Skirts, a one-act Theater for Young Audiences play about a lonely pumpkin farmer who finds an old trunk of calico skirts, directed by Callie Llewellyn. Among the young actors performing in these two productions are Natick residents Eliana Aliprantis, Eleni Crew, Ariana Jahic, Haley Kennedy, Sadie Klau, Lucy Landry, Diya Shah, Annabelle Springer, Emily Springer, and Liam Turner.

The program’s older ensemble, ages 14–23, performed three main stage musicals and one black box play. Audiences explored the lives of Henry VIII’s six wives in Six: Teen Edition, directed by Julia Deter; experience Andrew Lloyd Webber’s enthralling score in The Phantom of the Opera, directed by Chris Brindley; followed two revolutionaries as they tried to save rock ‘n’ roll against the backdrop of music by Queen in  We Will Rock You, directed by Skylar Grossman; and witnessed Sarah Ruhl’s reimagining of the Orpheus myth in Eurydice, directed by Tristan Burke. Among the performers starring in these four productions are Natick residents Morgan Bienstock, Anya Carroll, and Bernie Klau.